Psychic states are grasped only as shadows projected by reflected-on consciousness

Evidence

But that is not true: to affirm that the consciousness (of) belief is consciousness (of) belief is to dissociate consciousness from belief, to suppress the parenthesis, and to make belief an object for consciousness; it is to launch abruptly on to the plane of reflectivity. … It is on the reflective level only that we can attempt an , a putting between parentheses, only there that we can refuse what Husserl calls the mitmachen. The consciousness (of) belief, while irreparably altering belief, does not distinguish itself from belief; it exists in order to perform the act of faith. Thus we are obliged to admit that the consciousness (of) belief is belief. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 330 (#expands, via linked claim)

But now suppose that I suddenly cease to read and am at present absorbed in apprehending my pain. This means that I direct a reflective consciousness on my present consciousness or consciousness-as-vision. Thus the actual texture of my consciousness reflected-on—in particular my pain—is apprehended and posited by my reflective consciousness. We must recall here what we said concerning reflection: it is a total grasp without a point of view; it is a knowledge which overflows itself and which tends to be objectivized, to project the known at a distance so as to be able to contemplate it and to think it. The first movement of reflection is therefore to transcend the pure quality of consciousness in pain toward a pain-as-object. Thus if we restrict ourselves to what we have called an accessory reflection, reflection tends to make of pain something psychic. — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 882 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 330; Self-consciousness is not an added quality layered onto a psychic event; Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 549 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Reflective consciousness alone can dissociate itself from what it posits #expands (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 330
• Reflection transforms lived pain into a psychic object at a distance #exemplifies (0.90) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 882
• Self-consciousness is not an added quality layered onto a psychic event #corroborates (0.85)
• Psychic temporality is constituted by reflection, not original temporality #corroborates (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 549
• Impure reflection creates the psyche as a made-to-be virtual object #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 550
• Reflection deepens the reflective-reflected split beyond self-consciousness #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 802